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Warning Signs Your Tongue Is Telling You About Your Health

- Thursday, November 26, 2015 No Comments

The tongues color is very important to pay attention to. The color of the tongue can tell you a lot about the circulatory system and can tell you the of the oxygen levels in the body.
Tongue coating can tell you how well the digestive system is working.
The tip and the side of the tongue are important for self-diagnosis.

 1.White patches:When you have a white coating on the tongue it could mean you have an overgrowth. Candida overgrowth's often happen when you have been sick and have taken antibiotics, or when the immune system is weak. Balancing the gastrointestinal environment with healthy probiotics from fermented foods, good quality natural yogurt, or a probiotic supplement can restore the gastrointestinal balance.

 2.Webbed or striped look: This could mean chronic inflammatory autoimmune disease.

 3.Ridges or indention's: Ridges are usually natural, and you shouldn't be overly concerned about them. Just brush your tongue properly if the ridges are deep to get rid of any food that may be caught.

 4.Red tongue: The tongue is a rosy pink color when healthy. If the tongue is red, you need to pay close attention. If you have a red tongue, you could have strep throat or scarlet fever.

 5.Bumps: Having bumps in the tongue can mean various conditions. They can be caused by physical trauma like biting the tongue. If you have ulcers, then it could mean stress, but just keep an eye on the bumps. If the bumps are painful and don't decrease it could mean oral cancer.

 6.Black hairy tongue: This is one of the most disturbing ones. This could be from poor oral hygiene, recent antibiotic use, or fungal infection. It isn't a sign of serious underlying conditions.

 7.Spots: If you have a mixture of red and white patches in the tongue it could mean you have geographic tongue. A harmless condition that doesn't need a lot of concern.

 8.Macroglossia: This condition is linked with an enlargement of the tongue. It could also be a sign of hypothyroidism.

 9.Numbness or Tingling: This can happen from damage to the nervous system. Damage to the nerve that supplies the tongue has been reported as a complication of dental procedures.
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After The War: Vietnamese Girl Born Without Arms Lives Normal Life And Takes Care Of Her Nephew

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During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released Agent Orange into Vietnam jungle to defoliate forest land, aiming at destroying place to lurk and operate of Vietnam’s guerrillas. However, its consequences have affected Vietnam seriously. An estimated 4.8 million people are infected by this chemical, hundreds of thousands of them passed away and millions of people, including their descendants, living with sequels of disease due to this toxic chemical.
For me, photography can convey good messages to everyone directly and it is like my diary. I have travelled to many places to capture the daily life of all the people around me. In the numberless photos about the Vietnamese people that I took, I am really satisfied with this photo pack. I would like to tell you a story about an energetic girl with difficulties in a disabled body and deprivation material.
In a poor village in the north of my country, Vietnam, there is a small house where a young girl, named Nguyet, lives. She is one of many people that got sequel after the war. She was born without her arms. Therefore, she can do her daily activities, thanks to her legs. She dreams of having a small house to live independently and having a peaceful life in the village.
Nguyet is living with her parents in Vĩnh Phúc province, Hà Nội capital. She can do housework, take care of her nephew and niece to help her family. When she has free time, she often reads books and accesses the internet to improve knowledge.

During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military released Agent Orange into Vietnam jungle to defoliate forest land

4.8 million people are infected by this chemical, hundreds of thousands of them passed away

And millions of people living with sequels of disease due to this toxic chemical

Nguyet, a young girl, is one of many people that got sequel after the war

She was born without her arms

Therefore, she can do her daily activities, thanks to her legs

Nguyet is living with her parents in Vĩnh Phúc province, Hà Nội capital, Vietnam

She can do housework, take care of her nephew and niece to help her family

She has free time, she often reads books and accesses the internet to improve knowledge

She dreams of having a small house to live independently and having a peaceful life in the village

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Photo Taken By Two Psychos One Hour Before Killing A Man For No Reason

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Two men accused of killing a builder with an axe posed for pictures armed with massive knives less than an hour before the incident, a court heard today.
Donald Pemberton, 21, and Ryan Williams, 22, had gone out on New Year’s Eve ‘looking for trouble’ Plymouth Crown Court was told before Tanis Bhandari died trying to protect his friends from the pair.

Mr Bhandair, 27, was allegedly attacked outside The King Arms pub, in Tamerton Foliot on the outskirts of Plymouth Devon, at around 1.30am on New Year’s Day.
He was part of a group that were confronted by the two men who had reportedly gone on a violent rampage arming themselves with an axe and ‘at least one knife’.
The Facebook images shown to the jury showed Pemberton and Williams posing with huge bladed weapons as they prepared for a night of violence, the court heard. They are not alleged to have used the same weapons in the attack.
Simon Laws QC, prosecuting at Plymouth Crown Court, said the pair ‘left behind a scene of carnage’ and it was simply ‘bad luck’ that they crossed paths in the first place.
Mr Bhandair, of Tamerton Foliot, Devon was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering fatal images. The court heard how the four other members of the group also suffered injuries during the brutal attack.
Jamie Healy was ‘lucky to survive’ after losing his spleen and kidney, while Sean Cordon was ‘stabbed in the back and was also lucky and fortunate not to have been more badly injured’.
Another friend George Walker suffered a stab wound to the arm ‘as he raised it to protect himself’ and he also suffered knife injuries to his neck.
Both defendants deny all five counts, all relating to this one incident in the early hours of New Year’s Day. They are jointly charged with murdering Mr Bhandari, three counts of causing grievous bodily harm to Jamie Healy, Sean Cordon and George Walker and one count of actual bodily harm to Matthew Dawe.

The duo were ‘tipsy and high-spirited’ after allegedly drinking at a party prior to the incident. They encountered several revellers on their way home from a night out.
At their first encounter near a bus stop they asked a young woman and boyfriend for a cigarette, shoulder barging the young man. At a roundabout one of them jumped in front of a car which ‘frightened’ the female driver.
Another driver saw Williams in the middle of the road in a stance ‘a bit like a boxer’ while the other man, Pemberton, sprinted at the car in a ‘angry and aggressive’ manner. Some of this incident was caught on CCTV and shown to the jury.
The next incident involved a group of four near the entrance to Milford Lane where their behaviour ‘escalated’. One of the group, William Hickey, said Pemberton pulled out a ‘kitchen or fishing knife, six inches long, which he held to his face for ’10 or 20 seconds.
The group immediately called the police at 1.36am and the group ‘could hear screams coming from the directon of The Kings Arms, because the defendants had begun their attack’.

Source:UNILAD
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Dog wearing a GoPro captures owners' romantic outdoor wedding

- Wednesday, November 25, 2015 No Comments


Last year, Marshall Burnette and his wife Addie got married in the woods at the top of Roan Mountain in Tennessee. But instead of hiring a videographer to capture their big moment on camera, the couple strapped a GoPro to their dog Ryder.
"She took awhile to edit the footage, but we think she did a great job," Burnette explains in the video description.
The clip is surprisingly romantic for a video filmed and directed by a dog. This may be the start of a lucrative small business.
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Florida court convicts Derek Medina over Facebook photo murder

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A Florida man who killed his wife and posted a photo of the body on Facebook has been found guilty of murder.
Derek Medina admitted taking the picture on his phone and uploading it onto the social media site.
He failed to convince the jury that he had shot Jennifer Alfonso eight times in self-defence after years of abuse.
He said his wife was threatening him with a knife when he shot her in their home in Miami, but prosecutors said she was cowering on the floor.
When he posted the picture, he wrote on Facebook that he expected to go to prison or be sentenced to death for the killing.
Prosecutors successfully argued that the 27-year-old wife in fear of her life when she was shot in August 2013.
He had vowed to kill her if she left him and she had told friends she intended to do that, the court heard.
Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Rundle said: "No family should ever have to see their daughter killed and then exhibited worldwide on the internet like some macabre trophy to a husband's anger."
Medina, 33, could face a life imprisonment over the murder.

Source:BBCnews
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These Kids In Canada Tied Coats To Street Poles To Help Homeless Prepare For Winter

- Tuesday, November 24, 2015 No Comments
Though it’s a bit early, one woman (and a whole bunch of kids) has already shown us what the holiday spirit is really all about. Worried about what the homeless would do during the coming winter, Tara Smith-Atkins, her eight-year-old daughter, and seven of her friends gathered winter coats and tied them to street poles throughout the city of Halifax for the homeless to claim.
The children went to distribute the winter coats during her daughter’s eighth birthday. “They definitely learned the importance of it,” Smith-Atkins told CBC. “When we got back in the car after an hour on the street, they were all freezing and crying for the heater to be on and complaining because they were cold. And they were bundled up.”
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Tara Smith-Atkins’ daughter and her friends hung winter coats on street poles for the homeless to take



The wonderful gesture was a great way to spend her daughter’s eighth birthday!


“They definitely learned the importance of it,” Smith-Atkins said


“When we got back in the car after an hour on the street, they were all freezing and crying for the heater to be on and complaining because they were cold. And they were bundled up.”


The family spent a few weeks gathering the coats from their community




Image credits: Tara Smith-Atkins

Source:BoardPanda
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Northern white rhino dies in US, leaving only three alive

- Monday, November 23, 2015 No Comments

One of the world's last four remaining northern white rhinos has died in a zoo in the United States.
The condition of Nola, a 41-year-old female, had deteriorated after surgery and she was put down on Sunday.
Nola had been a popular attraction at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park since 1989.
The remaining three northern white rhinos - all elderly - are kept closely guarded at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Kenya.

Surrogacy programme

Nola underwent surgery on 13 November to drain a hip abscess. However, her health deteriorated a week ago and worsened again over the weekend and it was decided she should be put down.
The northern white rhino population was devastated by poachers seeking their prized horns, and was declared extinct in the wild in 2008.
San Diego zoo has recently brought in six southern white rhinos, hoping to use them as surrogate mothers for northern white rhino embryos.
There are about 20,000 southern white rhinos in the world, but studies are still taking place to determine whether the subspecies are genetically similar enough for the surrogacy to work.
Zoo researchers say that, if successful, the programme could see a northern white rhino calf born within 10 to 15 years.

However, Richard Vigne, who runs the Ol Pejeta conservancy in Kenya where the remaining three rhinos live, told the BBC the chances of being able to recover the species were "pretty remote".
"This species has been on the brink of extinction for an awfully long period of time. Sad though it is, the demise of Lola actually makes no material difference to the likely future of the species," he said.
Source:BBC
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One Internet Meme Changed This Woman's Life And Ruined Her Dreams

- Sunday, November 22, 2015 No Comments
The Internet is full of urban legends dating back to the first chain email you were forced to forward to 10 other people or suffer dire, maybe even deadly consequences. Other rumors can be less disturbing, unless of course you find yourself as the butt of the joke.
It's just so easy to forget that on the other side of our screens, real people are being subjected to the ridicule of a meme. As early as 2004, this image began circulating the web with a story of a man divorcing his wife for having "ugly" children and lying to him about having plastic surgery before their wedding. It even claimed he sued the woman and courts granted him thousands of dollars for her deceiving looks.

Despite being reported on by several news outlets, the strange story is 100% false.


In reality, she is a model from Taiwan named Heidi Yeh. She had a promising career ahead of her, as she landed great gigs one after the other.


A photoshoot for a plastic surgery office happened to be one of them, but she had no idea just how much the simple image would negatively impact her life.


The children were photoshopped into their "ugly" versions and it didn't take long for the distorted backstory to gain traction.

Everyone from her family to her hopeful employers are now under the impression that she's had work done.


Though there is a prevalence of eyelid surgery in East Asia to create a more doe-like expression, she denies having had the procedure done. Yeh has lost several job opportunities and even had a boyfriend break up with her thanks to the embarrassing meme's popularity.

Source:ViralNova
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An HIV-Positive Man Suddenly Died From Cancer...That Wasn't Even His

- Friday, November 6, 2015 No Comments

An HIV-positive Colombian man has died of cancer that began inside his tapeworm. His tumors were not made up of his own cells, but those of the parasitic worm that invaded his gut. This rare and unique situation is thought to be the first known to medicine whereby tumors have developed as a result of parasite-derived cancerous cells having spread and taken hold throughout a human host.
Described in the New England Journal of Medicine, the patient was a 41-year-old man who, back in early 2013, had been suffering fatigue, a fever, cough and weight loss for several months. He was diagnosed with HIV seven years earlier but did not take his medication. Consequently, his white blood cell (CD4) count was dangerously low and blood samples were loaded with virus particles. Fecal analysis revealed that he was also infected with the dwarf tapeworm Hymenolepis nana.
The patient was then given a CT scan which revealed that his lungs were riddled with tumors, ranging in size from 0.4 to 4.4 centimeters (0.16 to 1.7 inches) in size. His liver and adrenal glands were also infected. He was given biopsies at the time and sent home with both anti-HIV and anti-tapeworm drugs, but his condition worsened so further samples were taken and sent off to the CDC for analysis.
This is where things got a little bit weird. The cells were clearly cancerous – they were invasive, grew rapidly and in a crowded, disordered manner, and all looked the same. But they were tiny, roughly ten times smaller than would have been expected; far too small to be considered a human cell. Baffled, scientists subjected them to a bounty of tests, which eventually revealed the tumor cells contained H. nana DNA. Unfortunately, it was too late for the patient, who died just 72 hours after the discovery was made.
Analysis of the tumor cells' worm DNA when compared with a reference genome of an otherwise normal worm also revealed something quite striking. "Three of the identified genes that were 'broken,' or mutated, have already been implicated in other forms of human cancer," study author Dr Peter Olson told IFLScience. "If they mutate in humans, they can lead to a cell becoming cancerous. That's never really been shown, that sort of commonality between becoming malignant in a human cell line and an invertebrate cell line."

This case has completely gob-smacked scientists and doctors alike. H. nana is the most common human tapeworm, infecting around 75 million people worldwide, yet nothing like this has ever been described before. Although cancerous cells naturally circulate in certain animals, like dogs, cancer isn’t really transmissible between humans – although agents that can cause cancer, like human papillomavirus and the trematode worm Schistosoma haematobium can be transmitted between people.
Normally, people infected with this worm are symptomless and their immune system gets rid of the worm over time. But this man was immunocompromised by HIV, allowing the parasitic cells to grow uncontrollably, thus presenting the opportunity for cancer-causing mutations to arise from mistakes in cell division.
While this case seems to be unique, given the abundance of H. nana worldwide, and HIV, it seems plausible that there have been other cases that have gone undrecognized. "But the report is not that there is a new health risk that people should be worried about," said Olson. "The importance is awareness. It's a conundrum for clinicians when they look at these tumors. There's nothing anatomically to suggest they could be from a worm. But now this report is published, doctors should hopefully look out for this possibility."

Source:IFLScience
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